Charles and Sarah Constable House (1337 Court St NE) Salem, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
The Charles and Sarah Constable House (1337 Court St NE) has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Court Street--Chemeketa Street Historic District. The following information has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 87001373
- Date Listed
- August 26, 1987
- Name
- Court Street--Chemeketa Street Historic District
- Address
- An irregularly shaped area of appr. 38.57 acres bounded by the closures of Court Street & Chemeketa St. on the west, Mill Creek on the north & east, and on the south by the rear lot lines of properties on the south side of Court St.
- City/Town
- Salem
- County
- Marion
- State
- Oregon
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT; POLITICS/GOVERNMENT; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
1337 Court Street, NE; Assessor's Map 26BA 7-3W; Tax Lot 84610-480 Owners: Ronald and Nadine Thaheld, 1337 Court Street, NE, Salem, OR 97301
This is a Vernacular house remodelled in Craftsman style. It replaces an earlier dwelling, built on the lot in the 1870"s, and may incorporate elements of the earlier house. The Sanborn Insurance Map shows the east wall of the current structure as the same line as the west wall of the earlier one. Some sharing of the earlier fabric might explain the unusually thick walls reported in parts of the house by one of its former owners (conversation with Douglas Chambers, Fall 1985). The current house stands far to the west side of its wide lot. It is a one-and-one-half story side-gabled house with a full attached front (south) porch supported by three piers. A large central gable interrupts the cornice of the main roof. Windows of a variety of dimensions and styles light the house and its rambling rear addition(s). Siding is clapboard.
History
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The original house on this lot probably was built by James Joseph (cf. commentary on #1) and lived in by the attorney John J. Shaw beginning in 1876. In 1889, the property went from Shaw's estate to the banker J. H. Albert. A sale from Albert to Charles 0. and Sarah E.
Constable in the amount of $1650 is recorded in 1902. The Oregon Statesman for January 1, 1905, contains a photograph of "C. O. Constable's Residence" at 457 Court, the original address of this lot. The house illustrated is not the one in place today in its current form. The Constables presumably built a new house, perhaps c. 1906 and perhaps using elements of the old house.
The Constables are listed as living at this location until 1924. He was in the real estate business and then County Fruit Inspector. In 1924 the house was purchased by Jessie I. Wilson, wife of William E. Wilson, president of the Salem Brick and Tile Co. By 1928 William Wilson had died and Jessie Wilson had assumed the presidency of the company. She continued to live in the house until 1935. In 1943 she sold it to Douglas Chambers, who had been born and grown up in the neighborhood (cf. commentary on #3). Mr. Chambers was a sheep buyer, in the tradition of his mother's family, the Stuesloffs, who were livestock buyers from early in the century. The Steusloffs owned nearby houses across 13th Street. Mr. Chambers sold his house in 1963.
